Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
LETTERS FROM THE CAPITOL.
ST. PAIL. Jan L. 1887

This was what might be called fair days
work for the legislature though both houses
adjourned before | p. NJ In the early DAYS of
the session the work must be mapped out and
the committees set to work, and session of
two Or three hours can make all the work the
committees can handle in a week. if the law
makers let themselves loose. Senator Dan
lels came in with another high license bill
but it fixes the rate the same as Senator
Goodrich's bill at 81 900 in cities of 10000 or
more inhabitants and $500 in cities and towns
under 10000. The Senate had quite a pro-
tracted debate over Mr.. Donnelly's memo
rial which passed the house yesterday ask
ing our Senators and representatives to
Support the Cullom Interstate Commerce
bill, but finally passed it. The House in the
meantime took up the Senate joint resolu-
ton or the same purport, passed the day
before by the Senate and put it through
without much debate. So we have two
joint resolutions passed by both
branches Of the legislature
asking the same thing. L. will make the en-
rolling clerks little more work but do no
harm, and as the bill is now in the Senate
it will supply each Senator with resolu-
ton. Senator Sabin has already tele-
graphed that he is i'll favor of the bill and
Senator Mcmillan is known to be III the
same frame Of mind. OF Course the SEN
ate passed the $4,000 appropriate on bill
Ions and attaches can square up with the
hotels and boarding houses and buy bObog-
gan suits for the carnival.
Lieut.. Gov. Rice finished up his committee
work by announcing the following special
committees:
& Labor-Swenson. Edwards, Linde, Mach
bar, Shields.
Mining-Wood. Ward, Childs.
JOINT COMMITTEES ON Senatorial and
tlOugh. HalvOrSOn. Bowen.
Joint Committee on Soldiers Homes, etc.
Goodrich, Pope, Anderson, Schetfer,
Compton.
Public schools-Crandan. Comstock,
Dodge, Nelson. WEIGH
Governors Message on Mississippi River
Daniels, Schetfer. Burkhardt, Durant,
Hayden.
Boonls and Logs-Buckman, Glough,
Eaton. Durant, Whitman.
Between thirty and forty bills were intro
}uced in the House, mostly of Il local
character. One bill abolishes the office of
oil Inspector. The Senate has bill making
it 5000 salaried office and turning the
fees over to the State and between the two
all the tat is liable to be squeezed out of
that greasy position, 4 high license bill
similar 70 the two already in the Senate
was offered. By multiplying bills
on the same subject an immense amount of
lators little local glory at home The
newspaper men came to the front III destly
again to-day. Col. LOunsbery of the Duluth
News being appointed by the speaker clerk
of the Insurance committee and Capt. j. E.
Osborn OF the St Paul Skatfa- rem, clerk Of
the grain and warehouse committee.
The Democrats do not propose 70 let the
Republicans have al the ,un of a Senatorial
contest. and though to be the Democratic
nominee against Gov. Davis is rather an
empty { mp lnent. there was really more
of contest in the Democratic caucus held
this evening at the Merchants hotel than
there was at the Republican caucus last
week. IL out of the II Democrats in the
Legislature were prese:.t. The contest
was not so much as to men to the out
cropping Of obj lection to the distribution Of
patronage by MeSsrs. Kelly and DOran.
Mr. Doran being named as a candidate.
those who opposed the management of the
patronage opposed him. and Lewis Baker of
the Globe was put up as his opponent. On
the informal ballot Doran had p. Baker :. Eu-
gene Wilson'S. Thomas Wilson, and the bal
ance scattering. Mr. Durant made a
strong speech for Baker and the first for
mai ballot resulted Baker y. Doran 10. E
~ Wilson :. There were several hot
speeches made after this both sides and
the next ballot resulted Doran % Baker u
E NJ Wilson An egort to make the
nomination OF Doran unanimous
brought out several negative votes. Sena
tor Nelson Goodhue spoke warmly in be-
half of DOran but announced that he had tC
promise TO vote for Davis to get elected and
could not go back on his word This might
be said to be one of the anomalies of poll
tics. Doran might well exclaim Save me
from f1lends.'